The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-06-30
MISSING LINKS.

Sadie Meyer, of Landsford, Pa, al
though but 10 years old, weighs 1876
pounds.
A mitrailleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which will fire 1000
bullets in ninety seconds.
Jay Gould is the owner of ten thous-
and acres of land in Arkansas, located
in three different counties.
In New York the real estate sales for
the first four months of the present
year foot up 100000 900.
1t is said that the present to ex-Sec-
rotary Manning from the treasury en-
ployes will be punch-bowl.
M. Pasteur says he has treated five
hundred hydrophobia cases with his
cure this year and has lost only one.
Mrs. Langtry has had her hair cut
short, and her friends say she has lost
one-half of her beauty in consequence.
Over $50 natural-gas and oil compa-
MES have been organized in the State
of Ohio during the past sixteen months
1t is estimated that between $780,
000,0 and $500, 100000 will be ex-
pended in railroad construction in the
United States during the current year.
Colonel R. G. Ingersoll's eldest
daughter is a very beautiful young
woman, and is said to have the purest
and best soprano voice in New York.
Jacob Welch, of Richie county,
West Virginia, found twenty-seven
lively little squirrels in the hollow of a
tree he recently cut down in his yard.
The latest estimates place Belgium
at the head of the beer-drinking coun-
tries of Europe. The consumption per
Germany.
A Kingston lady lost bobolink re-
Gently from whooping cough. The
bird was infected with the disease from
the lady's children, four of them hay.
ing it at one time.
j. Annoy Knox, of Texas Sittings, is
the successor of John L. Raymond in
the Communicating business. He has
lucky quarter with which he has won
over $500 this month.
Nate Salisbury, who is Buffalo Bills
partner, proposes to introduce pop
corn in London this summer. He has
ordered one hundred bushels of the
unpopped vegetable from New York
dealer.
A Boston disciple of Esculapius says
cotton stockings are the bane Of New
England women, and advises the la
dies to cast them off and go barefooted
rather than wear an article that des-
troys them with rheumatism and neu-
ralgia.
1t is whispered that a watch-factory
girl asked member of the Boston city
council who was accompanying the
queen on an excursion, how long he
had been in this country, and whether
his home in the Sandwich isles resem-
bled Boston.
Joseph K. Shultz, well-known
farmer of Lancaster county, Pa, has
Just completed sales of his tobacco
crop, showing a total yield of $3.50 per
acre for last year. The census makes
Lancaster the richest agricultural
county in the Union.
Mrs. Grant has just received from
Charles l.. Webster check for $685.
3S4.53 as additional profits on the sale
of General Grants Memoirs" She
has thus received to date total of
1894, 1888. The financial success of
Grants book is unprecedented in the
history of literature.
The telephone wire between Brus-
sells and Paris was put to a fraternal
use recently by the advantage of mi
crophone. The Partisan people, being
invited to listen to band of music in
Brussels, heard over the wire French
melody, and heard it so distinctly that
not note was missed.
A New Lisbon co. girl, while dis
robing recently, was pulling off her
stocking with considerable exertion,
as her foot was damp. 1t came off I'M
expectedly, and her hand was released
with such sudden force that it struck
her under the chin and caused her to
bite her tongue nearly in two.
They have found bottomless pit on
the line of the Carthage and Adiron-
dack railway, New York, into which
they have dumped three hundred car
loads of stone and gravel. No sooner
do they get the hole filled up and the
roadbed apparently safe than the
whole thing disappears under water.
Near Oakville, w. T., is the burnt
stump of cedar tree, probably the
largest on record. 1t is hollow shell,
so feet high, 81 feet in circumference
one foot from the ground; 70 feet q
feet from the ground, and 81 feet in
ches six feet from the ground, The
cavity is % feet at its largest diameter.
A little grammar found in an old
garnet in Portsmouth, n. H, has an
illustration representing the difference
between the active. passive, and neuter
verbs. 1t is picture of father whip
ping his boy. The father is active, the
boy is passive, and the mother, sitting
by herself on a stool looking on, but
doing nothing, is neuter.
Diplomatic circles in Washington
are gossiping about what is said to be
slight to Prince Leopold of Germany
by the United States Government.
The Prince did not go to Washington
as he had intended, and it is said that
the cause OF his change of plan lay in
the fact that the Government took no
notice of his presence in this country.
Every new acquaintance is worth a
dollar to newspaper reporter. He
may not be able to find anyone who
would give him dollar for some of
the men he meets, but some day some
thing happens. and then the reporter
realizes that it is worth good deal
more than dollar to him to have some
acquaintance with the man who knows
all about it.
A very remarkable operation has
just been performed by Mr.. Keetley,
at the West London hospital. A child
was brought in having large mole
covering nearly the whole of its cheek.
He transplanted the mole by exchange.
That is, he removed the mole from the
cheek to the arm and planted flesh
from the arm Oh the cheek. Every
thing succeeded perfectly.
Several years ago few deer were
let loose on the mountains east of Ben
nington, and since that an effort has